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Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS), 2003 (ICPSR 4413)

Principal Investigator(s):
Baker, Wayne, University of Michigan;
Stockton, Ronald, University of Michigan-Dearborn;
Howell, Sally, University of Michigan;
Jamal, Amaney, Princeton University;
Lin, Ann Chih, University of Michigan;
Shryock, Andrew, University of Michigan;
Tessler, Mark, University of Michigan

Summary:

The Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS), 2003, a companion
survey to the 2003 Detroit Area Study (DAS), using a representative
sample (DAS, n = 500) drawn from the three-county Detroit metropolitan
area and an oversample of Arab Americans (DAAS, n = 1000) from the
same region, provides a unique dataset on September 11, 2001, and its
impacts on Arab Americans living in the Detroit metropolitan area. The
data contain respondent information concerning opinions on their
experiences since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, social trust, confidence in institutions,
intercultural relationships, local social capital, attachments to
transnational communities, respondent characteristics, and community
needs. Examples of the issues addressed in the data include frequency
of religious participation, level of political activism, level of
interaction with people outside of their cultural, racial, and ethnic
groups, and the quality of the social and political institutions in
their area. Background information includes birth country, citizenship
status, citizenship status of spouse, education, home ownership
status, household income, language spoken in the home (if not English),
marital status, number of children (under 18) in the household,
parents' countries of birth and citizenship status, political
affiliation, total number of people living in the household, voter
registration status, whether the respondent ever served in the United
States Armed Forces, and year of immigration, if not born in the
United States.
More information about the Detroit Area Studies Project is available on this Web site.

The Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS), 2003, a companion
survey to the 2003 Detroit Area Study (DAS), using a representative
sample (DAS, n = 500) drawn from the three-county Detroit metropolitan
area and an oversample of Arab Americans (DAAS, n = 1000) from the
same region, provides a unique dataset on September 11, 2001, and its
impacts on Arab Americans living in the Detroit metropolitan area. The
data contain respondent information concerning opinions on their
experiences since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, social trust, confidence in institutions,
intercultural relationships, local social capital, attachments to
transnational communities, respondent characteristics, and community
needs. Examples of the issues addressed in the data include frequency
of religious participation, level of political activism, level of
interaction with people outside of their cultural, racial, and ethnic
groups, and the quality of the social and political institutions in
their area. Background information includes birth country, citizenship
status, citizenship status of spouse, education, home ownership
status, household income, language spoken in the home (if not English),
marital status, number of children (under 18) in the household,
parents' countries of birth and citizenship status, political
affiliation, total number of people living in the household, voter
registration status, whether the respondent ever served in the United
States Armed Forces, and year of immigration, if not born in the
United States.

More information about the Detroit Area Studies Project is available on this Web site.

Universe:
All adults aged 18 and older living in households in the
greater Detroit metropolitan area who self-identified as Arab or
Chaldean.

Data Type(s):
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The date variable (IWDATE) has been split into
three numeric equivalents (I_MONTH, I_DAY, and I_YEAR) by ICPSR staff
in order to maintain continuity across statistical files.

In order
to get the month, day, and year of an interview, please use I_MONTH,
I_DAY, and I_YEAR together.

Methodology

Sample:
Dual frame sample: Area probability and list sample
using lists provided by Arab American organizations in the greater
Detroit metropolitan area.

Weight:
The data contain a weight variable, FINALWGT. Analyses of
these data should be performed using this variable. Please refer to
the codebook Sampling and Weighting Information section for a detailed
explanation of how the weight variable, FINALWGT, was calculated.